64 CORVIDJE. 



seventeen inches in length. The beak from the projecting 

 feathers to the point one inch and seven-eighths : from the 

 carpal joint of the wing to the end of the longest quill- 

 feather eleven inches and three-quarters ; the first feather 

 full three inches shorter than the second, and this an inch 

 shorter than the third ; the fourth a little longer than the 

 third, and the longest in the wing. 



The female of this species, obligingly sent me from Tyne- 

 ham, in the Isle of Purbeck, by Mr. Thomas Bond, measured 

 fourteen inches and a half in length ; the beak one inch and 

 a half from the projecting feathers to the point ; the wing 

 from the carpal joint to the end nine inches and three- 

 quarters ; the quill-feathers of the wing not so decidedly 

 black as those of the male ; beak, legs, and toes, vermilion 

 red ; claws black. 



Young birds of the year have but little purple gloss on 

 their plumage ; legs, orange red. 



